On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:59:56PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:28:55PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > >> text data bss dec hex filename > >> 3996071 155804 88992 4240867 40b5e3 vmlinux ip22 baseline > >> 3985687 159900 88992 4234579 409d53 vmlinux ip22 + bswap patch > >> 6913157 378552 251024 7542733 7317cd vmlinux ip27 baseline > >> 6878581 378552 251024 7508157 7290bd vmlinux ip27 + bswap patch > >> 5773777 268752 187424 6229953 5f0fc1 vmlinux malta baseline > >> 5773401 268752 187424 6229577 5f0e49 vmlinux malta + bswap patch > > > > A still unexplained effect of this patch and the reason why I have not > > committed this patch is the increase of the data size for the ip22 > > configuration by 4096 bytes. There is no change in data size expected. > > Also this affects only the test with ip22_defconfig not any of the others > > I've tried. > > Have you checked which object file(s) the increase comes from? The data size difference is created in the final link stage. data for all inividual .o files even vmlinux.o; only vmlinux differs. Ralf
